Welcome to your first weekly installment of V’s Riddle Corner. Each Friday evening I’ll provide you with a few riddles to earn you some Tanga Points, and perhaps even a few links to waste some time. The links will tend to be to interesting facts or fun videos, while the puzzles will frequently be based in logic or maths (gasp!). So, without further adieu…

Riddle 2:
“At 8 AM on Monday, June 9, 1969, you were drinking coffee in a booth in the diner by the rail station?” asked the DA.
“I was,” answered Mr. X, on trial for murder.
“And you didn’t see the man across the aisle – not ten feet from you – bludgeoned to death!”
“No, I was reading the morning paper.”
“The owner remembers you. You were in quite a hurry. You gave her a dollar in payment for a 24-cent check and didn’t wait for change.”
“I had to catch my train.”
“You were paying attention to the time, but you failed to notice the man in the next booth had been murdered – covered from head to toe in blood?”
“I might have known someone was there, but I never looked straight at him.”
“You didn’t hear him ask for french toast and coffee?”
“I might have. I don’t remember. I was busy reading the stock listings. I own a few shares.”
“And that took you how long?”
“A few minutes. Then I read the business news. There was a big article about predicted oil prices for next year. After I finished reading, I checked the time. I had less than three minutes to catch my train to Sacramento.”
In the back of the courtroom, Detective Y leaned over and noted to Inspector Z: “If he doesn’t get life for murder, we’ll certainly get him on perjury.”

Here are some oldies but goodies! 20 TP to the first person who can send me the answer to jeremy at tanga dot com.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

5. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. Looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

Hello all you Tanganites! TangaMonkey and TangaJen will be at the Starbucks in the middle of the MGM Grand in Vegas (not the one at the end by Studio 54) at 9:00 p.m. PST on Sunday August 12th. If you come up and say hello and give us the secret Tanga handshake, you will get 100 Tanga Points. We’ll be there for 15 minutes.

Salutations, loyal Tanganites. As your Wednesday editor, I hope to provide you with a gasp, a laugh, a challenge, and a few Tanga Points (TP) to those who are worthy. In an effort to open up the Tanga Times to a larger audience, I will gladly take suggestions (in regard to content) from anyone left in the comment section below. As for today, a small journey on the information superhighway is all I ask. The first to E-mail me the two-word final answer will get 15 TP and the runner-up will receive 5 TP. Feel free to âsaltâ below. Enjoy!

If youâre positive who the king of the jungle is, donât click here: Roar!

Hi, folks. It looks like Iâll be doing the Tanga Times on Tuesdays for the time being. I havenât read all of the archives, so if I rehash a link or something renfurdson posted before, just smack me upside the head.

This web puzzle takes you through 138 separate web pages/mini-riddles. Youâll have to scour everything from the pageâs source code to Google to get the answers needed to advance to the next level. Iâm embarrassed to say how far Iâve gotten. If you get to the last page, let me know and Iâll enshrine you in the Tanga Times.

Hereâs a bizarre, âfind the differenceâ puzzle. Make sure your volumeâs up because thereâs ambient noise that could provide a hint.

Check this out: âSuperplexus is a complex, 3-dimensional labyrinth that can be traced by a ball bearing.â Tanga, make it happen!

I hope you all enjoyed my first go at the Tanga Times!

Robrizob

NOTE: We are still looking for Tanga Times authors! Please contact us if you are interested!

At long last, the jigsaw puzzle will be available as our Saturday product. The image for this jigsaw is a montage of objects sent in by Tanga users. It’s a wacky and wonderful collection of stuff. We can’t promise super-fast delivery because the puzzles will be custom manufactured based on the number that we sell. If you want an extra copy or two, order them right away!

Besides being a fun jigsaw, the puzzle is also a One Word Wonder! That’s right, the puzzle has a one word answer. All you need to do is buy it, assemble it, and follow these simple instructions:

We are looking for Tanganites who would like to write our daily (M-F) Tanga Times. If you are witty, smart, love to spend time looking around the Internet for new and interesting things that will keep our users happy, then we want you! If you can come up with little puzzles involving the use of the internet, that is a plus. Please send an email to jeremy at Tanga.com and let me know if you are interested. If we can find FIVE (5) editors, then all you would need to do is one per week. We will give you 30 Tanga Points for each of your Tanga Times that we publish.

Hey all you STUs! Tomorrow (August 4th) is your lucky day… We’ll be launching an STU only product tomorrow at around 4:00 p.m. MST that only STUs will be able to participate in. For those of you who don’t know what an STU is, it is a “Super Tanga User” and these are the folks who have bought way too much stuff on Tanga and have solved way too many puzzles! You too can become an STU be throwing us your cold hard cash :-)

There are some organizational changes taking place at Tanga that affect Daily Fun. One of the short term casualties is the daily Hypercross puzzle. There are lots of Hypercross puzzles in the archives if you haven’t done them all.

The Tanga Times will also not run every day.

The One Word Warmup and One Word Wonder puzzles will continue to appear daily.

And speaking of art, let’s have an art contest. 40 points to the winner and 20 points to the runner up.

Do a piece of art on an ace. That’s right. Draw on the ace from a deck of cards. Leave the card back alone and it won’t make the deck unusable. The judge will be Norm, the dealer at the poker club frequented by Aaron and other Maine underworld characters.

To upload your entry, first create and submit a post to this blog, then click on the upload link on your post.

(It was Kete’s immediate favorite and she didn’t even see the puzzle in it)

Color this image in and post your colored version on this blog before tomorrow’s Tanga Times goes to print.

40 tp to the winner, who will be chosen this time by Aaron’s neighbor, Doctor Dugan. The funny thing is he’s not a doctor. His first name is Doctor! He makes his living designing pet clothing and accessories. His specialty is reptiles. Go figure.